Thrips tabaci Lindeman, 1889

Rasool, Iftekhar, Alattal, Yehya Zaki & Aldhafer, Hathal M., 2023, Faunistic inventory, identification keys and zoogeographical analysis of the Thysanoptera-Terebrantia of Saudi Arabia, including two new species, Zootaxa 5306 (2), pp. 151-200 : 191-192

Thrips tabaci Lindeman

Thrips tabaci Lindeman, 1889: 61 .

This cosmopolitan species, commonly known as onion thrips, is native to southeast Europe It shares most character states with T. speratus but tergite IX lacks CPS on anterior half, the ocelli are grey not red, and the pleurotergites have a dense covering of microtrichia in contrast to most species in genus Thrips .

Material studied. Al Baha. Almendaq, Wadi Turabah , 10 females from Argemone ochroleuca , 14 females from Asphodelus tenuifolius , 6.iv.2019, ( BT) ; Shada Al Aala , one female from Conyza bonariensis , 8.iv.2019, ( BT) ; Raghadan park, 21 females from Tagetes minuta , 22.ix.2020, ( BT) ; Al Baha city, 39 females, four larvae from Tripleurospermum auriculatum , 37 females from Asphodelus tenuifolius , 23.ix.2020, ( BT) ; Thee ain Village , two females from Heliotropium longiflorum , 25.ix.2020, ( BT) . Riyadh. Al-Deri’yya, 13 females from Sisymbrium irio , 12 females from Echinops hussoni , 13. ii. 2019, ( BT) ; Hraymla, Safarat dam, four females from Zilla spinosa , 14.iii.2019, ( BT) ; Al Oyayna , 129 females from Medicago sativa , 14.iii.2019, ( BT) ; Al Majmaa , three females from Triticum aestivum, (BT) ; Al Hair, four females from Petroselinum crispum , 28.iii.2019, ( BT) ; Al Ghat , three females from Citrus sp. , 27.iii.2019, ( BT) ., Zulfi, Bradiya , 39 females from Allium cepa , 11 females from Daucus carota , 27.iii.2019, ( BT) ; 23 females from Allium cepa, Rashid farm, 27.iii.2019, ( BT) ., Al Majmaa , two females from Poaceae , 28.iii.2019, ( BT) , Aldryhim, Y. N. and Rasool, I.

(* indicates new country records; © indicates species previously recorded but not found in this study)

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